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Reputation: 1040

How to create data volume in docker?

I am having some gitcode (around 10gb) kept in a folder "src" in my home directory. I have read somewhere that we can mount this code as a data volume in docker. I am a newbie to docker. I only have an idea of using "docker volume create" command, but totally unsure about how to use it.

Could someone help me in achieving this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1337

Answers (2)

ronkot
ronkot

Reputation: 6347

Bishal's answer has instructions how to use mapping with Docker compose. When using plain docker, use command

docker run -v <absolute path to src folder on host>:<absolute path on container> some-image
# Real example:
docker run -v ~/src:/src some-image

Upvotes: 1

Bishal
Bishal

Reputation: 837

Docker allows for easy volume mapping. This can be configured in your docker-compose.yaml file.

Volume mapping allows you to share a directory in your host machine to your docker-container.

version: '2'
services:
  web:
    build: .
    volumes:
      - .:/code

In the above snippet, the files in the current directory of host machine will be mapped to /code of the docker container.

This article has detailed explanation.

Upvotes: 0

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